Letters quotes

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◆ We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.

- Cassandra Clare100

◆ God loves me even when I don't forward those chain letters.

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◆ Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

- Thomas B Macaulay99

◆ I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

- Laurence Housman99

◆ If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

- Laurence Housman99

◆ I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

- Wynonna Judd99

◆ I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

- Harvey Korman99

◆ I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

- Dean Koontz99

◆ Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

- Samuel Butler99

◆ He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

- Anna C Brackett99

◆ This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

- William Faulkner99

◆ This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the blind see.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe99

◆ In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

- Clare Boothe Luce99

◆ The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

- Jane Austen99